The
Winstons are an exciting Progressive Rock trio based in Milan, Italy.The band consists of three well-established
musicians from Italy’s IndieRock scene and each one of them is using “Winston”
for his surname.So, it’s Linnon Winston
(Lino Gitto), Rob Winston (Roberto Dell’Era) and Enro Winston (Enrico
Gabrielli). Actually, “Smith” is their sophomore LP album and except the 3
Winston guys, a variety of musicians are taking part in this “Smith” project.
Richard Sinclair (Caravan, Hatfield and the North fame!), Mick Harvey (Bad
Seeds, PJ Harvey), and Nic Cester (Jet) are among the guests appearing here.“Popsters may try to cover up my love of
Prog, but I will always find routes to escape.The Winstons offer up their latest album and it's a suitably weird and
wonderful listen.The band are caught
halfway between Prog and Psych and so naturally will be compared with the
Canterbury scene.That comparison with
Canterbury is inevitable with Caravan’s Richard Sinclair taking vocals on a
cover of Wilde Flowers' ‘Impotence’.It's
not all Prog though.Mick Harvey takes
vocals and Jet's Nic Cester on ‘Rocket Belt’. The influences are far afield
though.‘The Blue Traffic Light’ is pure
early Yes.Apart from the sax break, ‘Around
The Boat’ could be Procol Harum.‘Blind’
is a wonderful slice of Psych Pop. ‘Soon’ could be Soft Machine and Cester
makes ‘Rocket Blue’ a cross between The Who and Kula Shaker.Canterbury gets a bad rep from outsiders as a
scene that thinks it is so far out that it ends up celebrating itself. There's
not a whiff of that here. ‘Smith’ may seem all over the place, at times it is,
but it's that variety and versatility that makes it such an interesting listen.”
– IDontHearASingle.comGREAT!!

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